Wednesday, May 4, 2011

All tapped out...

Somewhere in India a factory manager is turning out the lights on the last typewriter production line in the world...Godrej and Boyce, the last remaining typewriter factory on Earth has just closed down, with only a couple of hundred machines left in stock.The firm began production in the 1950s - when Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru described the typewriter as a symbol of India's emerging independence and industrialisation. Despite the onset of computer age it was still selling 50,000 models annually in the early 1990s, but last year it sold less than 800 machines.No matter how progressive technology becomes, nothing will replace the staccato sound of typewriter keys pounding out a letter.I'Ll miss YOu tYpewRiterS...